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Something I came across thanks to another member. If you enjoy reading about legal issues, lawsuits, etc., this site has it.

Legal Newsline

Legal Newsline is a legal journal covering high profile civil litigation lawsuits across the country. It's goal is to provide an objective view of the legal landscape as well as an active forum for both sides of the argument.
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The Government Can’t Evade Lawsuits by Strategically Mooting Cases​

Yonas Fikre, an American citizen, was placed on the No‐Fly List in 2010 while he was out of the country. Fikre alleges that this was an attempt to coerce him into becoming a government informant. Fikre attempted to appeal his placement on the list using DHS procedures, but these appeals were denied. Fikre was told only that he had been “identified as an individual who may be a threat to civil aviation or national security.” Fikre’s placement prevented him from returning to the United States until 2015, damaged his reputation, and destroyed his marriage.

When Fikre sued in federal court to enforce his rights, the government removed him from the list—initially without explanation—and then argued that the case was moot. The FBI has never conceded that its original decision to place Fikre on the No‐Fly List was wrong, nor has it explained what changed such that Fikre no longer deserves placement on the list.

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Legal Theory Lexicon: Interpretation and Construction​

Every law student learns that the relationship of a legal text to the resolution of a particular case can be complex. What does the text mean? How does that meaning translate into legal doctrine? And how does the doctrine apply in the context of the facts of the case? One way to think more clearly about this process is to distinguish between interpretation and construction. We can roughly define these two activities as follows:

  • Interpretation: The activity of discerning the linguistic meaning in context (or communicative content) of a legal text.
  • Construction: The activity of determining the legal effect (or legal content) of a legal text.
Those definitions sound pretty technical, but I hope you are starting to get the idea. We interpret the meaning of a text, and then we construct legal rules to help us apply the text to concrete fact situations.

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Capital Flows Into Litigation Funds With Social Justice Impact​

  • At least three funds launched with goals to advance social causes
  • ‘Incredible opportunity’ to generate impact and returns
Investors who seek returns by funding lawsuits are adding a new twist—they are seeking social change too.

James Burnham, a former Jones Day attorney who served in President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, in July launched Vallecito Capital, a $50 million fund that will back cases supporting the conservative policy mission. TRGP Capital, a Connecticut-based litigation financier, in January announced the launch of Flashlight Capital, a separate vehicle whose goal is to “catch the confluence” between litigation finance and ESG investing, said managing director Will Zerhouni.

And Aristata Capital, a firm launched last year and partially backed by Democratic donor George Soros, has made nine investments from a $67 million fund to hold corporations accountable for environmental and human rights abuses.

“Conservative, liberal, whatever it might be, you’re seeing more capital moving into this space,” said Rob Ryan, chief executive officer at Aristata. “You’re seeing a recognition from investors that this is a incredible opportunity to generate impact and some significant returns.”

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Capital Flows Into Litigation Funds With Social Justice Impact

Investors who seek returns by funding lawsuits are adding a new twist—they are seeking social change too.
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US federal judiciary adopts policy to curtail 'judge shopping'​

(Reuters) -The U.S. federal judiciary on Tuesday adopted a new policy aimed at curtailing "judge shopping" by state attorneys general, activists and companies who file lawsuits challenging government policies in courthouses where one or two sympathetic judges hear most cases.

The U.S. Judicial Conference, the judiciary's policymaking body, at a meeting in Washington, D.C., approved a policy that would require lawsuits seeking to block state or federal laws to be assigned a judge randomly throughout a federal district.

U.S. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton, newly appointed chair of the Judicial Conference's executive committee, said the change was prompted by the "plethora of national, statewide injunctions" being issued by judges in such cases.

Nationwide injunctions allow a single judge in one federal district to block implementation of new rules across the entire U.S.

The policy change followed calls by Democratic President Joe Biden's administration, Democratic lawmakers, and the American Bar Association for the judiciary to eliminate case assignment mechanisms that allow litigants to effectively choose which judges will hear their challenges to government policies.

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The Government Can’t Evade Lawsuits by Strategically Mooting Cases​

Yonas Fikre, an American citizen, was placed on the No‐Fly List in 2010 while he was out of the country. Fikre alleges that this was an attempt to coerce him into becoming a government informant. Fikre attempted to appeal his placement on the list using DHS procedures, but these appeals were denied. Fikre was told only that he had been “identified as an individual who may be a threat to civil aviation or national security.” Fikre’s placement prevented him from returning to the United States until 2015, damaged his reputation, and destroyed his marriage.

When Fikre sued in federal court to enforce his rights, the government removed him from the list—initially without explanation—and then argued that the case was moot. The FBI has never conceded that its original decision to place Fikre on the No‐Fly List was wrong, nor has it explained what changed such that Fikre no longer deserves placement on the list.

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Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case​


The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled a man’s challenge to his former placement on the No Fly List can move forward, finding the government failed to show his lawsuit is moot.

Yonas Fikre, a U.S. citizen who previously resided in Sudan, claimed his placement on the list was unlawful and sued the FBI.

The government later removed him from the list and signaled it was unlikely he would be readded. It then contended Fikre’s lawsuit was moot as a result and should be tossed.

The government warned that not declaring lawsuit like Fikre’s moot at the onset could require the government to disclose classified information. The Supreme Court rejected that assertion, enabling Fikre’s case to move ahead.

“Necessarily, our judgment is a provisional one,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the court’s opinion.

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US judge cites Dr. Seuss in dismissing Blagojevich suit: ‘Just Go. Go. GO!

A federal judge shut down former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s (D) latest attempt to regain ballot eligibility by quoting Dr. Seuss, underlining the former governor’s fall from political star to laughingstock. Blagojevich sued the state of Illinois in 2020, alleging the General Assembly’s...
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Federal Court Quotes Dr. Seuss in Scathing Opinion Dismissing Suit​


 

Blockbuster cases abound as Supreme Court enters opinion season​

WASHINGTON (CN) — Over the next two months, the Supreme Court is expected to release rulings in major cases covering elections, abortion, guns and government authority.

So far, the justices have only handed down opinions in 18 of the term's 62 cases. There’s no indication yet that the justices won’t follow tradition and wrap up the term by the end of June. That leaves just under two months to issue around 45 opinions; several pending cases have been consolidated and could be decided together.

While every Supreme Court case is consequential, the justices have handed down only one “big” ruling thus far: a unanimous decision to keep Donald Trump on presidential primary ballots in 2024.

So far, unanimity has been a trend. In the court's first decision of the term, all nine justices avoided ruling on disability lawsuits by dismissing a case involving hotel accommodations.

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The morning read for Monday, May 6 - SCOTUSblog

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Black voters won a big victory in Louisiana. Some White voters said it violated their ‘personal dignity’ (Tierney Sneed & Fredreka Scho
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The morning read for Tuesday, May 7 - SCOTUSblog

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: The Supreme Court is nearing the end of its term. Here are the major cases it still has to decide. (Melissa Quinn, CBS News) US Supreme
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Illinois legislators set to change ‘offender’ to ‘justice-impacted individual’​

(The Center Square) – Illinois legislators are working to change the term "offender" to "justice impacted individual" in state law, a move Republicans say disrespects victims of violent crime.

House Bill 4409 would add Illinois Department of Corrections representation to the Adult Redeploy Illinois oversight board, but it also changes the word "offender" to "justice-impacted individuals." Republicans on the Senate floor said the name change could cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.

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The morning read for Wednesday, May 22 - SCOTUSblog

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: The campaign to gut Washington’s power over corporate America (Declan Harty, Josh Sisco, & Josh Gerstein, Politico) 6,000 doctors
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The morning read for Monday, June 10 - SCOTUSblog

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Supreme Court’s Strains Intensify as Term’s End Approaches (Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal) Meta Gets Supreme Court Review on Inve
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Even When Big Cases Intersect With Their Families’ Interests, Many Judges Choose Not to Recuse​

Soon after longtime New Orleans attorney Wendy Vitter became a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana, she heard a lawsuit against the local government in Plaquemines Parish, a peninsular province encompassing the final 70 miles of the Mississippi River, between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.

A group of paramedics had sued the parish, seeking compensation for unpaid overtime. Vitter oversaw a pair of jury trials in 2019 and 2021, both resulting in wins for the parish. But an appeals court later ruled Vitter had erred in judgment and overturned her final order. That paved the way for the paramedics to be awarded more than $500,000 in compensation, plus hundreds of thousands more for their attorneys.

Throughout those proceedings, Plaquemines Parish leaders had a paid ally on their side: the judge’s husband, U.S. Sen.-turned-lobbyist David Vitter.

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Many Judges Choose Not to Recuse When Big Cases Intersect With Their Families’ Interests

Ambiguous — and unenforced — recusal standards mean few checks and balances for top judges when cases involve their family members.
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The morning read for Monday, August 5 - SCOTUSblog

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Justice Neil Gorsuch warns Biden to 'be careful' with Supreme Court reforms (Alexandra Marquez, NBC News) An inside look at the Supreme
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Legal Theory Lexicon: Words and Concepts, Sentences and Propositions​

Introduction
Even before entering law school, law students are likely to know that lawyers work with words and ideas. But most law students are likely to get through the first year without learning of one of the most basic distinctions in legal theory--the distinction between words and concepts--and the closely related distinction between sentences and propositions. This entry in the Legal Theory Lexicon provides a very short introduction to the these ideas and their applications in legal theory.

A word of warning. The notion of a concept plays an important role in legal theory, but typically legal theorists take the nature of concepts themselves for granted. With the exception of work on the nature of law, where the notion of a concept is sometimes interrogated, legal theory rarely discusses deep questions about the nature of concepts themselves. The discussion that follows ignores many important philosophical questions about concepts. This is the Legal Theory Lexicon and not the Philosophers Lexicon. For an introduction to the philosophical issues, I recommend the entry on Concepts in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is cited in the bibliography at the end of this Lexicon entry.

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Stories About Lawyers | 60 Minutes Full Episodes​

Oct 26, 2024 Full Episodes | 60 Minutes

From 2017, Steve Kroft’s profile of a man who discovered he had a brilliant mind for the law while he was serving time in prison for armed bank robbery. From 2022, Anderson Cooper’s report on the organization helping prisoners in Africa become lawyers and paralegals. Also from 2017, Cooper’s conversations with New Orleans Public Defenders who claimed that innocent clients went to jail because they lacked the time and resources to defend them properly. And from 2023, Lesley Stahl’s story on litigation funding, a multibillion-dollar industry for investments in lawsuits with little oversight.


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Famous Trials

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The morning read for Thursday, Nov. 21 - SCOTUSblog

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. group’s attempt to protect anti-Covid-vaccine doctors from investigations (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) Revealed: trans rights case
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The morning read for Tuesday, March 11 - SCOTUSblog

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Supreme Court seems intent on taking small steps in dealing with challenges to Trump’s agenda (Mark Sherman & Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press) Afte
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The morning read for Monday, March 24 - SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court's March session will begin this morning with oral arguments in voting rights case Louisiana v. Callais. The justices will then hear Riley v. Bondi, a dispute over the 30-day deadline to seek review of a Board of Immigration Appeals ruling denying withholding of deportation. Listen
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Institute for Justice Applauds Virginia Governor Signing Bill Expanding Occupational Licenses for Former Convicts, Remove Arbitrary Language Around Denial for “Moral Character” - Institute for Justice

ARLINGTON, Va. –Yesterday, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed SB 826, a bill that would expand access to occupational licenses for former convicts by denying a […]
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Institute for Justice Applauds Utah Governor Signing Fresh Start Bill Expanding Access to Occupational Licenses for Previously Convicted Felons - Institute for Justice

ARLINGTON, Va. –Yesterday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed HB 167, a bill that would expand access to occupational licenses for former convicts by reducing the […]
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The morning read for Friday, April 18 - SCOTUSblog

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press) Supreme Court to hear argu
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